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A TH I RD DmJ~lPOUR THE LYONS RECORDER LYONS, BOULDER COUNTY, COLORADO Saturday, August 9, 1919 Lyons Visitd with Three Floods wiU1in Five D~ys that were Similar in Destruction I i ; I The third flood came down the two St. Vrain rivers Sunday evening last, this one being heavier on the South Fork on the start but swung acrOss the KOrth canon and in a short time both rivers were overflowing their b~nks. and for the third time in five days swept the bridges in the city limits out on the ~orth Fork. The first flood took every bridge on that stream within five miles. The county put men at work Unmediately constructing a temporary bridge across the ~orth Fork down in the east end of ~eadow Park in Order to open up travel on the South St. Vrain. this W3S ready fOr trav~l in 24 hours. In about thirty minutes after this bridge was finished along car..e the second flood and down stream went the bridge also a foot bridge or so that had been hastily put in by some of our citizens. This happened Thursday afternoon at 5 O'ClOCK. The county bridge force were again on the job early Friday morning and at 2:30 had another passable temporary structure completed and travel opened up through to Estes Park via the south canon. Sunday evening about 5 o'clock heavy clouds gathered up the South Fork and SOOn it was apparent that a cloud burst had taken place about three miles up that stream. A ~an who was caught in it said it came dOwn 2S a curtain of water dro~ping from the heavens and four inches of water fell just where he was 1n as many minutes. This put the south stream higher than it had been during the first two floods, but fortunately no bridges were carried out over it and not much damage done to the rOad. The storm soon passed across to the North canon and that stream was fOr the third time in five days given the appear2nce of the early Cherry creek floods in Denver. This carried dOWn stream about half of the temporary bridge also a foot bridge that had been put in the'second time. , i i i ! I 1 , ! The county force sOon repaired the temporary traffic bridge early Monday morning and travel commenced again to and from Allens and Estes Park. The county forces salvaged one of the railroad company's foot bridges that went down the first day and put it back in place in Meadow Park, also put in a temporary vehicle bridge across the NOrth stream in order that the settlers might get into Lyons from up that canon. M~yor Kinc~id and county Commissioner Harry Miller inspected the NOrth Fork Load l\'C:dncscl,'y. The count.y has begun temporary repairs to bridges an~ highway, later the State and Federal govern'- ments will rebuild the highway. ........-